Words that rhyme with elderberry

• actuary 0
  n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]
• aerie 0
  n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• airy 0
  adj 1: open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn: aired, airy] 2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy] 3: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains" 4: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
• barberry 0
  n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries
• bayberry 0
  n 1: West Indian tree; source of bay rum [syn: bayberry, bay- rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris] 2: deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey- green wax-coated berries [syn: bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica]
• beret 0
  n 1: a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth
• beriberi 0
  n 1: avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1)
• berry 0
  n 1: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves 2: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) 3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: Berry, Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry] v 1: pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"
• blubbery 0
  adj 1: swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"
• blueberry 0
  n 1: any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries [syn: blueberry, blueberry bush] 2: sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high- growing blueberry plants
• boysenberry 0
  n 1: cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries [syn: boysenberry, boysenberry bush] 2: large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries
• bribery 0
  n 1: the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage [syn: bribery, graft]
• bury 0
  v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" 2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest] 3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" 4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up] 5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink] 6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant: remember, think of]
• canary 0
  adj 1: having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow] n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary] 2: a female singer 3: a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow, canary] 4: any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird]
• checkerberry 0
  n 1: creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell- shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]
• cherry 0
  adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] n 1: wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry 2: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood [syn: cherry, cherry tree] 3: a red fruit with a single hard stone 4: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red]
• cloudberry 0
  n 1: creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries [syn: cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, salmonberry, Rubus chamaemorus]
• contrary 0
  adj 1: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion" 2: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms" 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] 4: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind" [syn: adverse, contrary] n 1: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite] 2: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" 3: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
• cowberry 0
  n 1: low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries [syn: cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis- idaea] 2: tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller [syn: lingonberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry]
• cranberry 0
  n 1: any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries 2: very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
• dewberry 0
  n 1: any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America [syn: dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry] 2: blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes
• dictionary 0
  n 1: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them [syn: dictionary, lexicon]
• equerry 0
  n 1: an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles 2: a personal attendant of the British royal family
• ferry 0
  n 1: a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry, ferryboat] 2: transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferry, ferrying] v 1: transport from one place to another 2: transport by ferry 3: travel by ferry
• jerry 0
  n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
• jobbery 0
  n 1: corruptness among public officials
• loganberry 0
  n 1: red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California [syn: loganberry, Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus] 2: large red variety of the dewberry
• merry 0
  adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] 2: offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay, festal, festive, merry] 3: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy]
• prairie 0
  n 1: a treeless grassy plain
• remarry 0
  v 1: marry, not for the first time; "After her divorce, she remarried her high school sweetheart"
• robbery 0
  n 1: larceny by threat of violence 2: plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: looting, robbery]
• rubbery 0
  adj 1: having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness [syn: rubbery, rubberlike] 2: difficult to chew [syn: cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery]
• scary 0
  adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]
• secretary 0
  n 1: a person who is head of an administrative department of government 2: an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization [syn: secretary, secretarial assistant] 3: a person to whom a secret is entrusted [syn: repository, secretary] 4: a desk used for writing [syn: secretary, writing table, escritoire, secretaire]
• serviceberry 0
  n 1: any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit [syn: Juneberry, serviceberry, service tree, shadbush, shadblow] 2: edible purple or red berries [syn: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, juneberry]
• sherry 0
  n 1: dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
• shrubbery 0
  n 1: an area where a number of shrubs are planted 2: a collection of shrubs growing together
• snobbery 0
  n 1: the trait of condescending to those of lower social status [syn: snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness]
• snowberry 0
  n 1: deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries [syn: snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba]
• soapberry 0
  n 1: a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin [syn: soapberry, soapberry tree]
• spiceberry 0
  n 1: shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India [syn: coralberry, spiceberry, Ardisia crenata] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]
• strawberry 0
  n 1: sweet fleshy red fruit 2: any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry 3: a soft red birthmark [syn: strawberry, strawberry mark, hemangioma simplex]
• terry 0
  n 1: English actress (1847-1928) [syn: Terry, Dame Ellen Terry, Dame Alice Ellen Terry] 2: a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes [syn: terry, terry cloth, terrycloth]
• undersecretary 0
  n 1: a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government
• unnecessary 0
  adj 1: not necessary [syn: unnecessary, unneeded] [ant: necessary]
• unwary 0
  adj 1: not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell [ant: wary]
• very 0
  adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] 2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" 2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)]
• wherry 0
  n 1: sailing barge used especially in East Anglia [syn: wherry, Norfolk wherry] 2: light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors
• whortleberry 0
  n 1: erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue- black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus] 2: blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberry]
• barrie 0
  n 1: Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) [syn: Barrie, James Barrie, J. M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie]
• perry 0
  n 1: United States philosopher (1876-1957) [syn: Perry, Ralph Barton Perry] 2: United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858) [syn: Perry, Matthew Calbraith Perry] 3: United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819) [syn: Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, Commodore Perry] 4: a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
• aery 0
  adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal] n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• knobkerrie 0
  n 1: a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa [syn: knobkerrie, knobkerry]
• rebury 0
  v 1: bury again; "After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot"
• canterbury 0
  n 1: a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
• syllabary 0
  n 1: a writing system whose characters represent syllables [syn: syllabary, syllabic script]
• barbary 0
  n 1: a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries
• blaeberry 0
  n 1: erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue- black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus]
• slobbery 0
• airey 0
• arie 0
• ary 0
• barey 0
• barre 0
• barry 0
• berrey 0
• berri 0
• berrie 0
• buerry 0
• gerry 0
• kerry 0
• skerry 0
• balistreri 0
• newbury 0
• londonderry 0
• pondicherry 0

See also elderberry definition and elderberry synonyms